Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-11

and midnight lagoons and f~irc-raft of
the Mississippi, and %gunboaIs before
Vicksburg, and woods of Antietam,
and tell TO all the mountains and val
leys and lakes and rivers Of north and
south, jeremiads of war times that
have never been syllabled.
Beside that domestic perturbation and
inconsistencies of those days put the
sweet domesticity Of to-day. The only
campfire you now ever sit at is the one
kindled in stove or furnace or hearth.
Instead of a halt-ration of salt pork, a
repast luxuriant because partaken OF
by loving family circle and IN secret
condolences. o, now / see who those
letters were for, the letters you, the
young soldier, took SO long III your
tent to write, and that you were SC
particular to put in the mail without
any one seeing You lest you be leased
by your comrades. God spared you to
get back, and though the old people
have gone you have
HOME
of your own construction, and you Of
ten contrast those awful absences and
fillal, a brotherly, and loverly heart
breaks with your present residence,
which is the dearest place you will
find this side of heaven. The place
where your children were born is the
place where you want to die. 70
write the figures of 1862 | set up four
crystals, crystals Of tears. To write
the figures of 1887 ] set up four mem
bers of your household, figures of rosy
cheeks and aaxen hair, If / can get
!, -..em to stand still long enough.
Living soldiers of the north and
/, south, take new and special ordination
+ at this season of the year, to garland
, the sepulchres of your fallen comrades.
5 Nothing is too good for their memo
:. RES. Turn all the private tombs and
/ national cemeteries into gardens. Ye
e dead of Malvern Hill and Cold Harbor,
4 and Murfreesboro, and Manassas juno
ton, and Cumberland Gap, and field
hospital, receive these floral offerings
e of the living soldiers.
But they shall come again, all the
dead troops. We sometimes talk about
earthly military reviews, such as took
n place in Paris in the time of Marshal
Is Ney; in London, in the time of Wei
e lington, but what tame things com
pared to the final review, when all
y TIE ARMIES OF THE AGES
shall pass for divine and angelic in
spection. St. John says the armies o
= heaven ride on white horses, and
- don't know but many of the old caval
ry horses of earthly battle, hat wer,
;. wounded and worn out in service
may have resurrection. IT would b.
:, only fair that, raised up and ennobled
y they would be resurrected for thu
y, grand review of the Judgment Day. l
" would not take any more power to re
construct their bodies than to recon
20 struct ours, and | should be very gla'
80 to see them among the white horses o
-, Apocalyptic vision. Hark to tn
y trumpet blast, the reveille of the las
~ Judgment! They come up. All tn
u armies of all the lands and all centur
80 les, on whichever side they fought
whether tor freedom or despotism. TO
oe the right or the wrong. They come
" They come! Darius, and Cyrus, an
" Sennacherib, and Joshua. and David
leading forth the armies of Scripturs
times; Hannibal and Hamilcar leadin
r. forth the armies of the Carthaglnians
Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi leadin
on the armies of the Italians; Tanner
of lane Ghengis Khan followed by tn
of armies of Asia; Gustayus Adolphus
er and Ptolemy Philopater, and Xerxe;
a~l nvnrInr nnl Snp,tt.n mic m
at Washington, leading battalion afte
fit battalion. The dead
g AMERICAN ARMIES
" of 1776 and 1912; and one million {
'I northern and southern dead in on
civil war. They come up. They pas
~, on in review. The six million falle
in Napoleonic battles, the twelve mi
lion Germans fallen in the thirty year
war, the thirteen million fallen in tn
~. war under SesostriS, the twenty millio
-. fallen in the wars of Justinian, tn
twenty-five million fallen in the JEWS
' wars, the eighty million fallen in III
" crusades, the one hundred and eight
~, million fallen in the wars with Saracer
~ and Turks; the t~hirty-five billion me
-. cSlllltltu W DhNG ldllcu III DiIll
~ enough, according to one statiscian,
~. they stood four abreast, to reach cles
~. around the earth 442 times.
But we shall have time to see the.
" pass in review before the throne
judgment, the cavalrymen, the arti
lerymen, the spearmen, the infantr,
men, the sha%rpshooters, the gunner
- the sappers, the miners, the archer
80 the skirmishers, men of all colors, {
s all ~epaulets, of all standards, of a
w%eaponry, Of all countries. Let tn
nt earth be especially balanced to bea
~ their tread. Forward! Forward! Ii
- the orchestra of the heavenly gallerit
ri play the
GRAND MARCH,
IN joined by all the %tifers, drummers an
ON military bands that ever sounded vi,
IS tory or defeat at Eylau or Boroain'
TT Marathon or ~Thermopylae, Bunkt
Hill or Yorktown, Solferino or Bal;
" cave, Sedan or Gettysburg, from Ii
-, time when Joshua halted astrOnOm